The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages
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From ACM TechNewsMIT News| March 17, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
MIT researchers have developed a system that can analyze several surveillance cameras more accurately and in less time than it would take a human operator. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2012
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system that can produce recognizable three-dimensional images of objects located around corners...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 21, 2012
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size—the diameter of a human...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 29, 2012
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 17, 2012
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables robots to create and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2012
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 30, 2011
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips—devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 29, 2011
Imagine being able to "print" an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 20, 2011
Researchers at MIT and Princeton University have developed SignalGuru, a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on a car dashboard to collect information...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2011
On the deck of an aircraft carrier, where up to 60 aircraft are crammed into 4.5 acres (1.8 hectares), real estate is at a premium. While aircraft directors wave...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 3, 2011
Graphene, a form of pure carbon arranged in a lattice just one atom thick, has interested countless researchers with its unique strength and its electrical and...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 30, 2011
With the explosion of the Internet and the commoditization of autonomous robots (such as the Roomba) and small sensors (such as the ones in most cell phones),...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 13, 2011
A quantum computer is a device—still largely theoretical—that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 7, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a mathematical model to predict which technologies are the most likely to rapidly advance and be...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2011
In the 1980s and '90s, competition in the computer industry was all about "clock speed"—how many megahertz, and ultimately gigahertz, a chip could boast. But...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 16, 2011
Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 30, 2011
MIT professor Scott Aaronson and grad student Alex Arkhipov will present a paper at ACM's 43rd Symposium on Theory of Computing that describes an experiment, which...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2011
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms—including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 2, 2011
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 30, 2010